Button



J. H. HERMAN ETAL BUTTON Sept. 20,1927.- 1. .0

Filed Dec. 22, 1925 INVENTORS John H. Herman 6eor$e W-Jones TTORNEY Patented Sept. 20,1927. 8

JOHN H. HERMAN AND GEORGE W. JONES, OF NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUTTON.

Application filed December 22, 1926. Serial No. 156,383.

Thisinvention relates to a new and useful device in the nature of a button, particularly adapted for use in connection with garments, clothing and the like. a

The object of the invention is to provide a button which may be attached to or removed without mutilation to the garment to which sameis attached.

- A further object of the invention is to Fig. 6 shows a perspective detail view of the locking member. r p

Fig. 7 showsa perspective detail view of the catch member ,As here'embodied our improved button comprises a front plate 10 of ring shaped construction having a flanged portion 11. The back plate 12 is provided with a flanged portion 13, adapted to engage in the flanged portion 11 of the front plate 10. The

flanged portion 11 of the front plate 10 is provided with extended elements 14, adapted to engage in slots formed in the flanged portion 13 of the back plate 12. The above described construction being such as will attach the front plate 10 to the back plate 13. V

The locking member 15, of circular disc construction, is positioned inside the front plate 10. below the flanged portionl of the back plate 12. The latter describedconstruct-ion being such as will permit the front plate 10 to carry or hold an ornament 16, glass, a stone or the like.

The catch member 17, preferably of spring steel' wire or the like, is formed or bent circular and is provided with diametrical portion 18, havinga central raised element 19 and. a downwardly bent extremity 20.

The eatchmember 17 is positioned inside the back member 12, having its circular bent portion positioned under the above mentioned extended elements 14 of the front plate 10. The back plate 12 is provided ivith elongated slots 21, adapted to receive the diametrical portion 18 of the catch member17. The raised portion 19 of the catch member 17 plate 12.

The locking member 15 is provided with being positioned outside the back extended elements 22, bent or formed parallel to the locking member 15, so as to providehooks, adapted to receive the diametrical portion 18 of the catch member 17, when our improved button is rotated or turned. Attention is directed that the only openings to the inside of the button are the.

slots 21, which are fairly well covered by portions of the catch member 17, and therefore, the extended elements 22 of the locking member 15 are protected from dirt. or the 7 like, having a tendency to block the booking action thereof, rendering the device inoperative.

It being understood that the bent extrem ity 20 of the locking member 15 is forced or pushed through the garment to which our improved button is to be attached, when same is in an open position, as shown in Fig. 4; of the accompanying drawings Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows: g

1. In a garment button, the combination with a front plate having a flanged portion slidably engaging over a flanged portion'of a back plate provided with a movable catch 1 member, of a locking member inside the front plate, and'below the flanged portion of the back plate, extended elements formed therefrom and bent parallel to the. locking member, forming hooks engageable with the movable catch to lock the catch in closed position.

member positioned inside of the back memher, and having a portion movable and excatch member to look the catch in closed tending outside of the back member, and a position.

locking member positioned inside of the In testimony whereof We have aflixed our 10 front member thereby protected from dirt, signatures.

and the like, and provided with extended elements formed parallel therewith, form- JOHN H. HERMAN.

ing hooks engageable with the movable GEORGE \V. JONES. 

